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KUMA: Never Ending Bond - Preface and Prologue (Translation)

Note: Translation of the book "Owaranai Kizuna" ("Never Ending Bond") by Inoue "kuma" Hideki, who started out as X's roadie, was hide's personal manager until 1995, and a friend of his until the end.

I am trying my hand at a direct translation with this. It will not be perfect and may contain mistakes (almost certainly so). I am, as always, open to corrections.

Important note to avoid confusion: Throughout the book, KUMA alternates between calling hide "HIDE-san" and "Shishô", which means something like "master" or "teacher" and reflects the relationship they had. I decided to keep the Japanese word, as the English translation was oddly awkward.

Preface

Shihô, I feel like I haven’t seen you in a while…

Since we first met, we have never not seen each other for this long.

I was tired of the loneliness of not being able to see you, and tired of fighting it.

Come to speak of it, Shishô, all other things aside, there is something that has always been on my mind.

It’s that “unfinished song” that you helped me give shape to when I put all my effort into it at Lake Yamanaka.

I thought it would be a precious memory stored deep in my heart, of just you and me, not bothered by anyone else.

But, but, it seems that if I keep it sealed away like that, it will become the worst regret of my life…

When next we meet, I would completely hate myself if you say to me, “KUMA, what about that song you were working on? I haven’t heard it in full yet,” and I can’t let you listen to it.

Because I want to raise my chest with pride and say, “I did the best I could. Here it is.”

Therefore, therefore, even though it took me more than eleven years to get there, I did finish that “unfinished song”.

Since my memories are flowing over, please wait with listening to it until after you have read this…

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Prologue

First of all…

What I want to convey through this book is, most of all, “my bond with Shishô”.

It was so deep, deep, even I can’t imagine it. (A Never Ending Bond.)

Before I knew it, that bond with Shishô that started with me meeting X and grew with things accumulating over a long, long time, turned him into someone who was like family to me.

This bond, I think, is what I want to write about.

I’m going far back in time with this, so my memory may be a little faulty here and there, but I think I want to share a piece of the secret, hidden truth not seen by the public so far.

Shishô (HIDE-san) was not someone to express his thoughts in a straight way.  Nor was he a person of many words. Therefore, I think there was much to him that was not visible from the outside.

One example of this is how much he loved my own band, how much he supported us from behind the scenes… That’s just one thing.

Shishô always thought of the band to keep it united; towards the staff and me, who stuck by their side, he always showed an incredible amount of care.

Honestly, when I think about it again, there are a lot of episodes that gradually melt my heart.

And so, it is my wish to tell you stories that have not been talked much so far.

With that in mind, I want to keep writing.

Chapter 1, Part 1 & 2

[cracklewink]

My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

Couples Therapy (DpxDc Prompt)

Danny looses a bet and now he has to attend couples therapy. The problem? He has no one to attend couples therapy with.

The obvious solution, he decides with 3am clarity after 36 consecutive hours awake, is to put out a job listing. And where better to find a fake partner than a dating site?

About Me

Looking for someone to take to couples therapy and see how long it takes the therapist to notice we don't know each other.

Now all he has to do is wait.

[montereybayaquarium]

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[starry-bi-sky]

i think i'm hilarious -- aka i made blood blossom danny au memes

all of these come from my DpxDC prompt "i am pushing the batdad agenda--" and it's corresponding additions in the reblogs ksdjlf.

i am. rotating them in my head. forever and always. personally i think there should be more batdad aus in dpxdc, their dynamic could be neat. :)

[mysterycitrus]

the epic highs (cass cain batgirl solo) and the impossible lows (war criminal who hates women writing for black canary) of reading dc comics

[tshortik]

I love you messy artstyle i love you visible brush strokes I love you textures and rough edges I love you imperfections I love you roughness and colour blobs I love you scratchy sketches and bold stylisation and dirt and imperfections I love you ugly and raw emotion!!!!! ❤️

[skysyzygy]

losing my mind a little bit at the percy jackson tv show trailer because the quips? the actors?? the goddamn cover of Riptide going on in the background???? Middle school me would’ve been going NUTS and I’d be lying if I said I’m not at least a little delighted I can indulge her with this show

[bloobydabloob]

Playing Ratchet & Clank

[no1boa]

irene ❤︎

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[zaacoy]

Short freenoodles focused comic inspired in part by takakmimi's freenoodles post on twt!!

[lylahammar]

I think a vastly underrated form of anti-capitalism/fascism/discrimination is radical self acceptance. Like just accept being “ugly.” Fuck beauty standards fuck beauty products fuck trends fuck diet culture fuck fitting in fuck “beauty is pain” mindset fuck “healthy things have to taste bad” fuck skin care fuck plastic surgery fuck filters fuck trying to appeal to beauty standards that profit off of your insecurities just exist outside of what the system demands of you. Leave your acne gain weight wear the same clothes forever learn to view what society deems as your “flaws” as an anarchist symbol of power and freedom

[starshipdecay]

Toon Zelda redesigns! I've never been fond of the Toon Zelda design, and these girls deserve some individuality. Design notes and rambles below the cut :D

(time to turn the proper grammar off i aint capitalizing all this. warning: i am verbose)

first up, tmc zelda!

shes the one most like toon zelda, since i felt like the vibes fit the *most* (though not a lot). also, with her place on the timeline, i could justify a lot of bits, like the wings and the cape

the cape! obvs it comes from the toon zelda base design, but also it involves skyloftian fashion! i take the timeline as a challenge, and i once saw a take somewhere that the skyloftians all wear their family crests (most often birds lol) on their person. zelda here (and link too) do just that, wearing their family crests on little caplets. on the back is, of course the royal crest

i went very cutesy princess for her. tmc has such a *whimsical* vibe that i feel is very. muted? by the fact its stuck with the toon style. so i wanted to put in that vibe here. also her sprites make it look like her skirt is super poofy, so how could i not?

curly hair: i wanted something interesting, and most zeldas have straight hair. so! adds to the cuteness

i didnt draw it so well but she (and link) both have very sleepy expressions. zelda especially just has a sleepy expression in her sprite, its quite adorable.

shes not as decked out as other princesses, cuz i see tmc taking place before the royal family really starts to get *royal* as we see it. shes still of course got a tiara and some embroidery tho.

Tetra! her base design isnt all that changed from the original. her name is a fun hc of mine tho. i think "von Hyrule" sounds better as a surname than just "hyrule". shes not zelda, but shes still a descendant.

(WW) princess z (as i call her)

I went more oot zelda vibes for her, since she would be closer, temporally, to oot. i also went very warm, since ive never seen the flood as a *warm* endeavor.

shes got the shoulder danglies, as most zeldas have shoulder armor of some kind. the danglies instead of actual armor are supposed to kind of evoke a royal sea captain kind of vibe.

shes ghostly, with a fish-eyed stare. shes been dead and gone for a long time. shes also a bit taller and a few years older than tetra (as of ww). shes just some spectre the king saw in tetra, not at all a close match

tetra, being smaller than princess z, doesnt fit into the clothes. the dress is too big for her (as is in canon gd that skirt is WAY too long for her), the coat is baggy. the role of a princess *literally* does not fit her.

the ribbons! theyre my replacement for the wings, and they represent the wind in the game! since its represented by white lines, the ribbons are a perfect symbolic match. (also, a note, tetras hair is shorter and coarser than princess z's)

i mostly bullshitted the blue panel but the vague idea i gave it was 'a hope for the triforce to give good fortunes to the people' (pictured as dots, mostly behind her arms)

Pirate Queen Tetra

ph! about a year has passed, and tetra has really grown into her own! as well as literally grown!

shes still tetra, pirate and captain, but shes incorporated that royal heritage into her identity: quite literally! she made piecemeal of the original outfit (what was left of it anyway after the fight), and added bits and pieces to her new life.

she also takes full advantage of said heritage to call herself pirate queen. its great for branding. whos gonna say she CANT go by pirate queen?

the seagull feather is from Aryll. only crew member tetra wears a trinket from (who can say no to that ball of sunshine! certainly not tetra)

not many notes. yall can see whats there. (also she still wears her hair in a bun, its just in a low bun (you can almost see it) when she wears her hat)

st zelda!

first note is: shes not a princess! shes an heiress of the company tetra had made and left behind. hence her title of Lady zelda. ("new hyrule" rly just like-- the ending of ww was *literally* that hyrule is dead and thats okay. how did they miss that :sob emoji:) also calling her Lady Zelda fits with the train vibes

shes in a 1880s style bustle dress because 1) i am OBSESSED with bustle dresses. i love them. so much. 2) the more historical vibe works really well with trains! also a lot of the other outfits in the game have late victorian vibes, so shes certainly not out of place.

her hat (and gloves): any proper lady has a hat on when going about town, however, when she gets body snatched, she pulled out her hatpin to use (ineffectively) as a weapon (she IS tetras great-great-granddaughter), causing her to lose her hat *and* hairdo.

shes still got the hatpin in her ghost form, too. she uses it to threaten people for funsies

Ribbons! on the topic of hairdo, her ribbons! visually tying her to tetras design, the ribbons here instead take on the image of train tracks, with her pin (on the left side) evoking a train engine. the pin also makes her look rich and girly. when her hair comes undone, this makes the ribbons all loose, like how the train tracks disappear in game. (the hat also kinda connects her to tetra)

thanks for reading :D i hope you liked reading this as much as i liked typing it

[macpackl]

i drew my friend @brookah-art's awesome and epic wheatley android design and its the best bc he has a britain belt

[o-i-w-u]

my sprout is built like lugia so he cant really see much

quick redraw of a really shitty doodle from last night while i was waiting for my laundry to finish